Woman Ditched for Outing Her Date as Not a 'Real' Harvard Grad Splits Views

The internet has dragged both a woman and her date for bragging about their experiences at Harvard, criticizing them for the way they went on about it.

In a post shared Tuesday on Reddit, a 25-year-old woman from a small midwestern city, who goes by the username u/Mechanical-Walrus, said that she matched with a Harvard alum on a dating app and went for a coffee with him. But it turned out he wasn't being completely honest.

About 30 minutes into the date, as a Harvard alum herself, she asked what he had concentrated on and he just gave her a blank stare, before saying he finished a "web dev certificate from the extension program."

After some googling, the woman discovered that anyone can finish the web dev certificate "by paying a $6000 fee and taking three online courses" and she wasn't too impressed by it.

"I then asked him 'Why are you calling yourself a Harvard alumnus? When people hear 'Bobby went to Harvard' they assume that Bobby has an actual degree from Harvard, not some certificate that holds no real weight.'"

"Anyway, my date got up and left, but not before he said 'This is why most people can't stand people like you.' I've gone over our conversation multiple times yet I can't see where I said anything wrong," she wrote.

Harvard University is one of the most competitive Ivy League schools in the United States and it has an overall acceptance rate of 4.6 percent, which has been declining for the past eight years. For the Class of 2022, about 42,749 students applied to Harvard University, and only 1,962 of them were accepted.

The post which was first shared on the r/AmITheA**hole subreddit has gone viral, receiving over 10,400 upvotes and 1,900 comments.

Most users thought both parties were being unreasonable about the way they used their Harvard experience to brag about themselves. One user called sunfloweries asked: "babe...what. you seriously sat across from this person and googled this sh*t while he was sitting across from you!??!"

And nothingclever4now added: "Can you imagine? I mean, he should definitely not have that in his bio, but OP could have just parted ways after finishing their cup of coffee."

Another user, Twoflower1, commented: "My cousin and her husband went to Harvard law and they refuse to say Harvard. They say our law school or that place we went because they hate how pretentious Harvard grads are. Makes me laugh every time."

User uermesorherpes declared the poster "NTA" (Not The A**hole), writing: "He's a pretentious jerk for putting Harvard alumnus in his dating profile. Anyone who actually went to Harvard knows that the proper phrase is 'I went to school in Boston.'"

"This is why girlfriends arrange emergency 'get me out of here' procedures before going on blind dates..." 3xlduck joked.

Gogogadgetrage commented: "I'm assuming it was the sense of betrayal at learning that Harvard was selling its brand for just $6,000 when she spent more than six figures on it. She had to know then and there on how Harvard could do this. Definitely [Everybody Sucks Here], with the hypocrisy on the dude judging Harvard alumni while being a fake alum on a dating app of all the things."

And LittleFeltSpock added: "[Everyone Sucks Here] but frankly iconic on both sides. Love the lying. Love looking the guy's lie up right in front of him. You two would be really fun to watch in a sitcom, I don't want to know either of you IRL."